Over the last three weeks, we have all heard parts of the story, but not the whole story on what was really said before and during Clemson’s game-winning drive to beat Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.

Quarterback Deshaun Watson gave a little more insight on Friday’s Mike & Mike Show on ESPN Radio as to what transpired on that faithful drive in Tampa, Fla., last month.

Trailing 31-28 with 2:01 to play in the game following Jalen Hurts’ 30-yard touchdown run, Watson and the Tigers took over the football from their own 32-yard line.

“I had butterflies,” Watson said when asked what he was feeling before taking the Tigers on a 9-play, 68-yard drive to win the national championship. “This was not a bad thing. This was my last shot. It is either now or never so I just walked out there, kind of got myself together, took a deep breath, got my guys on the same page and said, ‘Hey, let’s go be Legendary.’”

Having the attitude that no moment is too big, including the final drive in the national championship game is what calmed Watson down in those final moments so he could lead his team on one final drive to win it all.

“It is just my attitude. I always have the right attitude no matter what,” he said. “When I walk out there on that field I knew we were down, but they scored too soon and left us about two minutes to drive down the field against one of the best defenses in college football to win the national championship. I just have the right attitude and the right energy and everything else just spread throughout the offense.”

So down the field the Tigers went. A 24-yard pass to Mike Williams and a 17-yard pass to Jordan Leggett and suddenly Clemson found itself on the 9-yard line with 14 seconds to play. So what was the conversation really like over on the Clemson sideline?

“There was one situation where we got the (pass interference) and Coach Swinney had mentioned lets run the ball and if we do not get it lets kick a field goal or whatnot,” Watson said. “But you can see on the game tape where I’m chatting with him and he says, ‘Hey, let’s go win it. We did not come this far to go to overtime. We came this far to win it,’ and that is what we did.”

From the Alabama two-yard line with six seconds left, Clemson called a “rub” route where wide receiver Artavis Scott tries to cross up two ‘Bama defenders to free up Hunter Renfrow, who came open in the flat. Watson rolled to his right a made an easy toss to Renfrow for the game-winning score with one-second to play.

Watson recalled prior to the start of the drive what Swinney said to him privately and then what he said to the entire offense before they went down the field and won the national championship.

“He just came up to me and smiled, and said, ‘this is fun right!?’’ Watson said. “Just before we went out, he came in the huddle and said, ‘This is what we play for.’ He was just smiling and stuff. We are looking back like, ‘what are you doing? We got to go score. There is two minutes left.’ He said, ‘This is what you play for. Let’s do it and he just walked off.’”

And the rest is history.

–Above photo: Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson celebrates after throwing the game-winning touchdown pass during in the National Championship Game against Alabama at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)

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